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EVERYBODY READS THE ENTERPRISE—EVEN IF THEY BORROW IT!
Founded in 1899 by Col.
W. F. Cody (“Buffalo
Bi!l”) and Col. Peake.
A/OLUME XXIII. NUMBER 52.
MUNCHAUSEN, EN
TOUR, WRITES US
UP IN BOSTON POST
Apaches Os Paris Have Nothing
On Us When We Dance-La!
La! Also Tush! Tush!
William F. Kenney (Baron Mun
chausen) In the Boston Post
Cody is one of the most interesting
«pots Id the West, at typical border
town and metropolitan city combined.
Here you will find the cow puncher,
•with his flaming shirt and big som
brero, as well as the store clerk dress
ed in city clothes. Fifty per cent of
the women dress in khaki trousers.
This includes the tourists. There is
no age or size limit. Grandma of 70,
thin and small, has on knickers, and
mother, with her 200 avoirdupois,
•wears riding breeches and golf stock
ings.
You can not judge people by their
•clothes back here.
The only distinction is between
<hose who travel by auto and do their
own cooking, and those who put up
at the hotels. The former are called
“sage brush hoppers” and the latter
“dudes.”
There was a dance at the pavilion
Tuesday evening, and I went over
,«here just to give the affair the “once
ever.” Jt beat anything I ever saw
■in Europe, New York or Boston. The
prospective dancer buys a string of
10 tickets for a dollar. There was a
“jazz” band of five pieces. The piano
player was a young girl, not over 15,
with a braid of hair down her back.
It is impossible to hear anything
else within a mile when that band is
playing. I can hear that saxophone
now.
A Picturesque Dance
The dances are very short, there
■being a reason for this. No dance is
started until every “guy” has given
'tip a tickt from his strip.
No encores are given, and it doesn’t
take long to use up a strip of 10
•tickets.
I have seen the Apache dances in
Paris, the Greenwich Village Follies,
and other unique and startling per
formances of terpslchorean gyrations.
They are not in it for a moment with
the Cody exhibition. There are red
shirts, plaid shirts, long skirts, short
skirts, no Skirts at all. Yosemite
Park sight seeing bus drivers, with
sleeves rolled up to their shoulders,
'danced with girls wearing the latest
New York evening dresses, and chaps
with dinner suits “zig kagged” around
the floor with girls wearing shirt
waists and knee trousers. And the
dances. Zowie! There is no censor
ship in Cody. The latest dance back
here is called the "cow-punchers
strangle.” It deserves the name, and
"then some.
If any couple ever tried it in the
Copley-Plaza, Manager Race would
send for the police reserves.
The saloons of former days in Cody
are turned into “near beer” places
and restaurants. I went into one of
them for breakfast the other morn
ing, and the witness shouted at me
“Whatsyereaten! ”
“I beg your pardon.”
“Whatsyereaten." she repeated.
“Oh! some griddle cakes and cof
fee.” “Four slabs, one mud,” she
hollered through the hole to the kit
chen.
By the way, one order of Cody grid
dle cakes would fill an elephant.
They are as big around as a pie, and
an inch thick.
One of the former bar rooms, now a
very good restaurant and card room,
has the following sign: "Rules of the
house: ”
“Don’t pay If you can’t pay. It’s
on me don’t go here. You pay while
you play, after each game; no tabs.
“We don’t loan money. Please
•don’t use bad language. There might
be ladies near, and besides It sounds
like hell. Leave dogs and bottles out
side.
Another “eat house” has this con
spicuous sign over the lunch counter:
“Don’t put your feet on the walls.”
Following is the card game menu
of “The Mint Soft Drink Parlor.” E.
Erickson, proprietor.
The Mint Menu:
First course—Please don’t pay un
less you have the cash, or can write
checks (checks that are good).
Gambling for money not allowed.
Second course—No money, no hick
ey. The man that wins the hickey
1s out of luck If the other man don’t
pay-
Third course—We haven’t the cap-
Cody Enterprise
CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING—GATEWAY TO Y ELLOWBTONE NATIONAL PARK
JOHN W. HAY WILL
BE IN CODY FRIDAY
John W. Hay will arrive in Cody on
Friday and speak at the open air pa
vilion in the evening.
Mr. Hay’s tour of the Basin has been
most encouraging as enthusiastic re
ceptions have been accorded him at
every stopping place.
YOUNG MONTANA MAN IS
DROWNED IN CLARK FORK
James Lindsay, a youn man of 24
years, from Bear Creek, Mont., met
death by drowning in Clarks Fork last
Thursday afternoon.
He and some companions had been
camped on the stream below the Hop
kins ranch and the fatal accident oc
curred when he attempted to wade
across the stream carrying a pack
and was swept down the current.
Considerable time was required by
a searching party to find the body,
which was finally located a few hun
dred feet below the point where the
young :un entered the water.
Coroner Vogel was called on the
phone, but after questioning witnesses
and ascertaining that death wag purely
accidental, considered it unnecessary
to make a personal investigation. The
body was taken to the home at Bear
Creek.
GEORGE GOTH WINS
BEST MH PRIZE
Mrs. Louis Chauvet Takes Sec-
ond And L. Fbert Third-Ted
Hogg Close On Their Heels
The Rev. A. M. Shepperd and Will
iam Lenniger, after a tour of inspec
tion through all the likely back-yards
and gardens in Cody, have voted
George Soth th© prize gardener, with
Mrs. Louis Chauvet second and L.
Ebert third.
The prizes are $25.00, slg.oo and
SIO.OO, respectively.
Carl Hammitt who was to have been
one of the judges is out on a pack-trip
so Mr Shepperd was asked to act in
his place. On Monday morning Messrs.
Lenniger and Shepperd started out
early and they made such a thorough
job of it that they state that what they
do not know about the back-yards of
Cody is not worth knowing.
They reported that Soth’s garden
was just about 100 per cent. A really
remarkable garden, containing 35 vari
eties of vegetables, perfectly planted
and kept, and brilliant and beautiful
with flowers.
Mrs. Chau vet’s garden, which is a
large one and looked after by herself,
contained both vegetables and flowers,
making her yard both attractive and
useful. Mr. Ebert’s also was so far
abov© the average that the judges
agreed he was entitled to third.
Mr. Ted Hogg had a model garden
and would have been in on the money
If he had gone in for flowers but he
received special mention from the
judges who spoke of his straight amj
weedless rows with much admiration.
Others who came close to being
prize winners were Jim Edwards and
William Lieb, Sr. Back-yards which
contained only flowers and were con
sidered by the judges to deserve hon
orable mention were those of Otto
Konig, S. C. Parks and Dave Jones.
Both Mr. Lenniger and Mr. Shep
perd themselves have back yards that
are not to be sniffed at
Th© SSO which is to be divided
among the prize winners was left with
the Enterprise last spring by a visitor
to Cody to stimulate Interest in gar
dens and back yards. Whether this is
the reason or not, it is a fact that
yards have never looked so attractive
as they have this summer.
Ital to pay your meal ticket, unless
we get the cash.
Fourth course—Will appreciate If
you patronize us, but w© can’t do bus
iness without the cash. It is easier
to pay today than six months from
today. Watermelons and turkeys in
season.
Breakfast drinks (In other words,
eye openers) —Light and dark grape
and loganberry.
Dessert —Fresh snus.
Service Is our middle name.
WH,AD’YE-MEAN, OBSOLETE?
Such words as “wine” and “beer”
and the names of other Intoxicating
drinks are recorded as “obsolete” in
the revised edition of the Encyclo
pedia Americana.
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
As Seek From The Wer-Wxjn
The friends of S. A. Watkins, can
didate for re-election to the office of
county commissioner, are telling him
that he will win In a walk. There is
such a thing as carrying a joke too
far.
fill
John P. Dahlem, candidate for sher
iff on the republican ticket, states that
in his opinion one of the chief duties
of the sheriff’s office should be to pro
tect the residents of the county
against theft.
In this connection we may say that
last winter while Davis and his dep
uty, Cullen, uninvited guests, were sit
ting, goggle-eyed, at town and coun
try dances, hiding in coal houses, run
ning up alleys, searching the cars of
respectable people without warrants
in the hope of catching somebody
with a pint of whiskey on him, stock
thieves over in the Clarks Fork coun
try stole in something like a week, 50
head of cattle from Simpson 8r05.,250
head of sheep from Frank Clark, 150
head of sheep from John Tolman.
It will also be recalled that while
Davis was on the trail of the thief
who stole Willie Lieb’s car he aban
doned the pursuit to chase a bootleg
ger.
It was at this time that prohibition
headquarters commended Sheriff Da
vis for his “splendid activity.”
If II
Anybody could have known from
Bill Barlow’s expression last week
he was in trouble. A look of gloom
was settled upon Bill that was as
deep as it was unnatural.
It appears that wihle he was asleep
In his shack somebody slipped in and
took a bottle of bourbon which he
had been saving for medicinal pur
poses from a time antedating prohi
bition, and in its place they left a
bouquet of sweet peas. Bill say a a
thing like that is enough to make a
person lose faith In human nature.
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Those who have known E. E. Dunn
ever since he came into the country
an expert accountant from Chicago, in
experienced in the ways of ranch
life, and have watched him develop
the raw land he took up on upper
Sage Creek as a homestead into a
green fleld of grain and alfalfa have a .
great deal of respect for this quiet,
unassuming gentleman and are glad
that they are to have the opportunity
of voting for him for county treasur
er.
Upright, markedly conscientious in
all that he undertakes, intelligent and
well informed, no man in this section ;
is held in greater esteem by his
friends and neighbors than E. E.
Dunn.
In the realization that he is the i
r.ght kind of man—an idal person
for that office—Mr. Dunn’s friends j
have been insistent that he become
a candidate.
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Elk Basin sends us word that be
fore they can promise to support any
candidate for the sheriff’s office they
must know how he proposes to feed
his prisoners as they declare they
deeply resent the attenuated appear
ance of their favorite bootleggers
who returned a shadow after six
months in the county jail.
I II 1 II
Mrs. Minnie Ide of Powell has an (
nounced her candidacy for the office
of county superintendent of public
schools. Mrk Ide, who is a sister of
the present mayor, is a graduate of
the Ilinois Woman’s College and an
altogether capable woman, well quali
fied to fill thb position for which she
is a candid ite
B. C. RUMSEY CHALLENGES LOCAL
PROHIBITIONISTSTOPUBLIC DEBATE
Stipulates That His Opponents Must Never Have Violated Dry
Law—Announces His Candidacy
For State Legislature.
“All human eloquence, among all
peoples and in all times, may be sum
med up as the quarrel of Right
against Law. Right and Law are the
two great forces whose harmony gives
birth to order, but their antagonism
is the source of all catastrophe. To
right belong the inviolability of hu
man life, liberty and peace. To Law
belong the sword and sceptre, war and
every kind of yoke. And let It be un-
While Walter Barber was sheriff
the sam e trouble with reckless or ma
licious drivers of the yellow buses
was experienced as motorists are hav
ing this year.
There was a sudden end to the
complaints.
Mr. Barber stationed himself in the
canyon and got his own evidence.
Then he notified the superintendent
of the Park that there would be no
more buses through until there
wa £ a change in the methods of the
drivers. We are informed it required
only bq long to bring this about as it
headquarters.
If the present incumbent of the
sheriff’s office would spend as much
time protecting the lives and proper
ty of the people of Park county as he
does in shadowing somebody sus
pected of having a pint of moonshine
on his hip, w© feel sure that it would
meet the approval of a large number
of citizens who believe that there
are laws on the statute books which
it is quite as important to enforce as
the prohibition law.
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Somebody ought to do something
to these last minute candidates that
shock folks’ nervous systems. Look
what Jesse Crosby of Crosby done
on bis bosom friend and neighbor
John M. Snyder, living only eight
miles away at Lovell!
Mr. Snyder, who has been cam
paigning with Governor Carey,
thought he was going to be elected
to the office of state treasurer with
out opposition, and then Jesse Crosby
of Crosby up and ’lopes in and files
his petition for the same job about
1 a minute and a half before the expi
ration of the filing period.
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L W’hat we most admire about Sheriff
T Davis is his originality. Precedent
means nothing In his young life. He
is a law unto himself. He has done
things since he has been in office
which no sheriff ever did before and
which it is not likely any sheriff ever
will do again. If a man is to be pun
, ished, Mr. Davis likes to see that he
gets plenty.
Take the case of Winnie Knott
Winnie was arrested by “Hair
| breadth Harry,” without a warrant,
for transporting a pint of moonshine
in his shirt front.
He was fined $350, $24.85 costs and
60 days in jaiL
■Winnie was a barber and, as bar
bers are not reckoned among the
predatory rich, this was a pretty stiff
sentence.
Mr. Davis, however, did not feel
that it was enough, so when Winnie
was leaving at the end of 43 days he
endeavored to collect a board bill of
$30.10 from him, figuring his meals
at the rate of .35 a meal or .70 a day.
Winnie refused to pay and Mr. Da
vis concluded not to insist.
Os course, Mr. Davis may deny this
but we take it that Winnie’s word is
as good as the word of a man who
would go on the witness stand and
swear it was daylight in January at
6 o’clock a. m. so are printing the inci
dent as told us by Winnie Knott
11 I I I
“Tex” Holm and Pat Kelly have
shown themselves the sort of men
their friends believed them to be.
Finding that John Dahlem was in the
race for sheriff and that a large num
ber of republican voters thoughout
the county believed him to be the
strongest man at this time for that po
sition, they have withdrawn in his fa
vor and will support him for the office
he seeks.
derstood that all social agitation aris
es from the persistency of Right
against the obstinacy of Law, For
the Right which makes men, against
the Law which men have made —Pro
jure contra legem.”—-Victor Hugo.
I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Representative on the Re
publican ticket, subject to the will of
the people at the coming primary
(Continued on page 4)
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1922
S. C. PARKS AND S. A. WAT
KINS ARRESTED IN PARK
S. C. Parks and Santford Watkins
were in trouble again last Sunday.
They were arrested in the Park for
speeding and fined $25 by the authori
ties.
Fortunately they had the amount of
their fine between them and so were
allowed to go on their way with the
promise that they would not burn up
any more of the Park road.
Boys will be boys.
Prohibitionists find great delight in
quoting President Harding's words
“Whoever violates one law encourages
others to violate all legal code.”
VOTERS CHANGING PARTIES
MUST FILE CERTIFICATES
10 DAYS BEFORE PRIMARY
Voters who wish to change their
politics at the coming election must
file certificates to that effect with the
county clerk not less than 10 days be
fore the primaries, August 22nd. This
information came from Attorney Gen
oa! Walls and should be heeded by
those democats who have seen the
light and wish to cast their lot with
the republican party.
MONTANA RIOER IS
WORLITSCHAMPION
Tegland, Third At Cody, Wins Ist
At Cheyenne-Oklahoma Man
Sets New Roping Record.
Last year’s champions • stepped
down and out and new ones took their
place when the leturns were in last
Saturday morning On the Frontier
Day sports, at Cheyenne last week.
Owing to rain, the finals In the
bucking contest were not ridden until
Saturday morning when the decision
was given to Howard Tegland of
Miles City, Montana, with Hugh
Strickland of Fort Worth, Texas, sec
ond, and Bob Askin and Yakima Can
nutt dividing third, fourth and fifth.
Tegland is the rider who took third
at the Cody Stampede.
Other riders at Cheyenne known to
Cody folk were C. R. Williams
(“Pretty”), Roy Barkey, Leonard
Stroud, Sam Scoville and Jesse
Coates.
Ben Johnson of Isriker, Okla., low
ered the steer roping record to 20
and four-fifths seconds.
Other champions in the various con
tests are as follows:
Women’s broncho busting—Bonnie
McCarroll of Boise, Ida.
Calf Roping—Billy Kingham of
Cheyenne, Wyo.
Steer Bulldogging—Jim Massey of
Snyder, Tex.
Cowgirla’ Relay Racing:—Mlfbel
Strickland of Fort Worth, Tex., on
McCarty string.
Cowboys’ Relay Racing—Bill Hur
ley of Cheyenne, Wyo., on McCarty
string.
Cowboys’ Trick and Fancy Riding
—Leonard Stroud of Rocky Ford,
Colo.
Cowgirls’ Trick and Fancy Riding
—Mabel Strickland.
Women’s All-Around Riding—Ma
bel Strickland.
FARM BUREAU PICNIC
ATTRACTS LARGE CROWD
■ -
The Farm Bureau’s first picnic held
In Ebert’s grove last Thursday proved
an unqualified success. Some 125
cars went from the Cody and Powell
farm districts and all present report
ed an enjoyable time.
It furnished an excellent opportun
ity for the ranchers in the different
sections to get acquainted and talk
things over.
The program pleased everybody
and the speech made by J. C. O’Ma
honey was particularly liked. Mr.
O’Mahoney is campaign manager for
John B. Kendrick.
BILLINGS EDITOR TO NEW YORK
Raymond Richard and L. R. Lewis
of Billings were in Cody Wednesday
on their way to Denver by motor. Mr.
Richard has been editor of the Bill
ings Gazette for a year or more but
has resigned to take a position with,
the New York American.
Howard Tegland and A. Brassfleld
were in town on Monday. They were
on their way to Bozeman where they
will ride.
{
| The policy ©f this paper la
Ito uphold the standards
I and perpetuate the spirit
of the old West.
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ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY
RANCHERS TO POST
LAND TO PROTECT
THE SAGE CHICKEN
Greedy Hunters Kill Off Whole
Bunches-Better Than Turkeys
To Eradicate Grasshoppers
It was decided at the last meeting
of the 'Park County Farm Bureau that
the members should post their land
and keep off hunters who have in sea
sons past made a practice of trespass
ing upon their private grounds and.
killing off the sage-chickens.
The farmers have learned that saga
chickens destroy even more grass
hopprs than turkeys and are particu
laly valuable to them in the fall when
the grasshoppers are laying their
eggs.
Unsportsmanlike hunters shoot
over their grounds and wantonly kill
off these sage-chickens to the last
bird and the ranchers now propose to
iafeguard themselves against further
depredations.
This step wih meet the approval of
the many who regret to see the sage
chicken exterminated and have been
disgusted with the greediness of hunt
ers who have no regard for the game
laws—people who get out before the
season opens in their eagerness to
beat their neighbors—persons who
shoot more than their allowance andr
mor© than they can themselves use.
The game is for everybody and ev
erybody should do what he can to pro
tect it as between coyotes and hard
winters the sage-chicken at best has
i a fight for existence.
Some of the tourists are among the
j worst offenders, carrying guns in..
•! their machines and shooting at every
thing that runs or files merely for the
fun of it
Only recently a party of tourists
shot up a bunch of sage-chickens that
had been hatched in the field of a
Sage-creek rancher and protected by
Ihim on account of the grasshopper*
they destroyed. When the rancher
went down to the seen© of the bom
bardment he found t' • tourists had
thrown away one of the chickens
which they considered too small to
use.
BASIN HOTEL BURNS;
GUESTS FLEE IN NIGHTIES
Basin had a bad fire last Wednes
day which resulted in the destruction
of the Antlers hotel, the Cook build
ing and Kaster meat market. The
hotel guests had to make their geta
way in their night clothes. All the
buildings were well covered by insur
ance.
HUMANE FOLK WOULD
SUBSTITUTE NOSE PRINTS
FOR THE BRANDING IRON
Stockmen down in Texas are watch
ing with considerable interest effort*
being made to substitute nose prints
for the branding iron as a means of
keeping a check on cattle.
Experiments in taking nose prints
as a means of identifying cattle has
proved successful in every case, it is
said. For example, last October the
University of Minnesota began to ex
! periment and now has made 1000
: tests.
i "The study of comparison has re
, vealed that so far we have found only
i two prints that could not be readily
told apart; these two out of the thou
| sand looked alike," says Prof. Will
iam E. Peterson, who had charge of
the work at the university.
Taking the print of a cow's nose
is a simple process—mimeographs or
plain newsprint paper giving the best
results, it is said.
"The animal's head is grasped un
i der one arm," Mr. Peterson explains,
“the perspiration from the nose wiped
off with a flannel and the ink applied
with an odinary stamping pad."
“The print is taken on paper at
tached to a cardboard."
DRIVES CAR OVER BANK
Henry Dahlem while taking what ia
known in the vernacular as 'a mess
of gaps," drove his car containing his
family over the bank on the North
Fork road last week. The family jump
ed and saved themselves but Henry
was bruised and considerably shuck
up
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